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FONTEIA. FONTEIUS. 179
same with Julius Florus who in the eighth year of regarded as. the son of Janus: but, as Janus is
Tiberius headed an insurrection among the Treviri. always represented in later times with a beard.
(Tac. Ann, iii. 40, 42). See Weichert, Poet. Lat.
Reliq. p. 365, &c. [W. R.]
FLORUS, JU'LIUS SECUNDUS,,a distinguished orator, the contemporary and dear
friend of Quintilian. Julius Florus, named above i
as famed for his eloquence in Gaul, was the paternal uncle of Julius Florus Secundus. (Quintil. x.
3, ~ 13; Senec. Controv. iv. 25.) [W. R.]
FOCA or PHOCAS, a Latin grammarian, author of a dull, foolish life of Virgil in hexameter Eckhel (vol. v. p. 214, &c.) maintains that the two
verse, of which one hundred and nineteen lines heads refer to the Dioscuri, who were worshipped
and a half have been preserved in two fragments, at Tusculum with especial honours, and who may
together with a short Sapphic ode, by way of exor- be regarded as the Dii Penates of the gens. The
dium, on the progress of history, addressed to the heads of the Dioscuri also occur on other coins of
Muse Clio. The title of the piece, as found in the Fonteia gens, as we see in the second specimen
MSS., is Vita Virgilii a Foca Gr-anmatico Urbis figured below. The head on the obverse of the
Romae Versibus edita, or with the complimentary
addition Grammatico Urbis Romae perspicacissinzo
et clarissimo, from which we may conjecture that o
he was one of the public salaried teachers who
gave lectures at Rome under the later emperors,
while his name indicates that he was a Greek by
Extraction at least, if indeed we are not to under-
5tand that Rome here denotes New Rome or Conitantinople. We know nothing regarding the third coin, with a thunderbolt beneath it, is prolistory of Foca, nor the precise period when he bably that of Apollo Veiovis; the reverse reprelourished, except that he lived before Priscian and sents a winged boy riding on a goat, with the two
=assiodorus, by both of whom he ismquoted. In caps of the Dioscuri suspended above him, and a
Iddition to the life of Virgil],we have three cou- thyrsus below.
)lets, In Aeneidem Vigyilii, and two tracts in prose,,ne De Aspiratione, and the other Ars de Nomine,? ~~ ~
t Verbo, with'a preface in elegiac verse.,b
The metrical productions of this writer will be
bund in the Antwol. Lat. ii. 175, 185, 186, 256,
d. Burmann, or No. 286 — 289, ed. Meyer; the 5,rose treatises in Putschius, Grammaticae Latinae
iuctores Antiqui, p. 1687 and p. 1722. See also _;
Vernsdorf, Poet. Latini Min., vol. iii. pp. 347,:10. [W. R.] FONTEIUS. 1. T. FONTEIUS, legatus of P.
FOCAS, emperor. [PHoCAs.] Cornelius Scipio, in Spain, B. C. 212. (Liv. xxv.
FONTA'NUS, a Roman poet of the Augustan 32.) After the defeat and death of P. and Cn.
ge, who sang the loves of the nymphs and satyrs. Scipio, Fonteius, as prefect of the camp, would
Ov. ex Pont. iv. 16. 35.) [W. R.] have succeeded to the temporary command at least
FONTEIA, one of the vestal virgins in B. c. of the legions. But the soldiers, deeming him un9, daughter of C. Fonteius [No. 4], and sister of equal to conduct a defeated army in the midst of a
I. Fonteius [No. 5], at whose trial she was pro- hostile country, chose instead an inferior officer,
aced by Cicero, to move the compassion of the L. Marcius, for their leader. (Liv. xxv. 34, 38.)
Ldices in behalf of her brother. (Cic. pro Font. Fonteius, however, seems to have been second in
7.) [W. B. D.] command (xxvi. 17); and if he were the same
FONTEIA GENS came originally from Tus- with T. Fonteius mentioned by Frontinus (Stratag.
ilum (Cic. pro Font. 14), of which municipium it i. 5. ~ 12, iv. 5. ~ 8), he was a brave, if not an able,
as one of the most distinguished families. The officer.
onteii were plebeian (Cic. pro Dom. 44), and 2. P. FONTEIUS BALBUS, praetor in Spain, B.C.
)re the cognomens AGRIPPA, BALBUS (omitted 169. (Liv. xliv. 17.)
ader BALBUS, but given under FONTEIUS), and.3. M. FONTEIUS, praetor of Sardinia, B. C. 167.
APITO. The cognomen Crassus (Frontin. Stra- (Liv. xlv. 44.)
g. i. 5. ~ 12, iv. 5. ~ 8) is an error of the 4. C. FONTEIUS, legatus of the praetor Cn.
[SS., since there were no Fonteii Crassi. The Servilius Caepio, with whom he was slain in a:st member of this gens, whose name appears on popular tumult at Asculum in Picenum, on the
Le consular Fasti, is C. Fonteius Capito, one of the breaking out of the Marsic or Social War, B. C. 90.
Insuls suffecti in B. C. 33. [W. B. D.] (Cic. pro Font. 14; Liv. Epit. 72; Vell. Pat.
There are several coins of this gens; but Capito ii. 15; Appian, B. C. i. 38; Oros. v. 18.) He was
the only cognomen which occurs upon them: the father of Fonteia (Cic. pro Font. 17), and of
lose which have no cognomen upon them are No.5.
ven below. The obverse of the first represents a 5. M. FONTEIUS, son of the preceding. The
)ublc-faced head, which is supposed by Vaillant praenomens of both these Fonteii are very doubtid others to be the head of Janus, and to indicate ful. (Orelli, Onom. Tull. s. v. Fonteius.) Cicero.
rat the race was descended from Fontus, who, we enumerates the offices borne by M. or M'. Fonteius
am from Arnobius (adv. Gentes, iii. 29), was in the following order. He was a triumvir, but
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